From my new home-town paper, PEST sufferers have formed support groups:

“The media outlets, especially Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on talk radio, scare our patients to death,” said Gordon, facilitator for the meetings. “More than anything else, people with PEST tremble physically.”

Gordon said the Kerry supporters in therapy are predominantly Jewish and older than 50. Most are registered independents and all live in Palm Beach County.

“We mostly let them vent during the first session,” Gordon said. “By the third session, we’ll be doing some meditation exercises to aid some of their symptoms. We may use visualization and some techniques designed for bipolar disease and other mental disorders. That might help them adjust to reality.”

According to AHA officials, symptoms of PEST are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. They include nightmares, sleeplessness, hostility, listlessness, and emotional outbursts including threats to leave the country.

“There’s an overall sense of emotional helplessness and abandonment,” said Sheila Cooperman, a licensed AHA psychotherapist from Delray Beach. In psychology, we call it ‘learned helplessness.’ After you zap a caged dog twice, he stops moving because he knows there is no place to go. That’s what
happened with these Kerry voters. They’ve been zapped so many times that they’re on the verge of giving up on politics.”

Cooperman, also a practicing psychic, added, “One person today said he thinks the country is now run by fascists. Another felt personally threatened by the president’s love for big business. Many believe Bush is going to draft their grandchildren. The anxiety may not affect them every day, but it affects their energy level.”

Emphasis mine. I can't quite tell if the reporter here is being sympathetic, or slyly poking fun at them. Either way, this is just a sample. Read the whole delicious thing--The Onion would have a tough time doing any better.

I read your post and thought initially that you had either taken up satire a' la Iowahawk or cut'n'pasted something from the Onion, when I reached the bottom and noted your comment about the Onion being hard-pressed to do better. Opening the link confirmed that there is really such thing as a PEST support group. Wow.

I am still shaking my head at the whole thing, particularly the blissful disregard, on the part of the PEST sufferers, of the entertaining nature of the name of their Malady. They also suffer from an Irony Deficiency. Clearly, in addition to treating them for PEST, it is going to be necessary to get them into Irony Deficiency Individual Outpatient Therapy.

IF, and I repeat IF, Cooperman is in fact a Practicing Psychic, then why didn't he warn them that Kedwards was going to lose?

How serious can you take a psychotherapist who claims to also be a psychic? Or should it be split out to, PHYSCHO THERAPIST?

The childish antincs and whining on the part of the democrats since the election has made it clear that they got what they deserved.